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The fourth edition of Fun Fun Fun Fest officially kicks off at noon tomorrow and naturally, one can be forgiven for looking ahead to day one already. The likes of The Jesus Lizard, Les Savy Fav, Chelsea Peretti, The Sword, Pharcyde, Neon Indian, and Shearwater are all on Saturday’s schedule but let’s hold our horses for we still need to indulge in a full night of revelry before we set up camp at Waterloo Park for the weekend. This evening, Austinist proudly presents the After The Jump blogger’s panel at 5:30 at The Mohawk, followed by the latest installment of our Local Music Is Sexy series, spread across the 'hawk and Club de Ville this year.

We're running a little Twitter contest from now until 1 p.m.: Tweet us (@austinist) your best beautiful, idiotic, or otherwise nonsensical haiku for a chance to win a pair of weekend passes to Fun Fest plus a pair of spots on our VIP guestlist for Friday's Local Music is Sexy party at the Mohawk and Club Deville. Rules: include "#funfest" so we can find your haiku, and at least one of these phrases: "beer", "mechanical bull", or "Rick Perry". The responses thus far have been stunning.

So you’ve put away the Halloween costumes for another year and adjusted your clocks. The beautiful weather outside makes those hours spent in your cubicle tick away oh so slowly. And the promise of turkey ‘n’ fixins is still a few weeks away. It all adds up to thing -- Fun Fun Fun Fest is here! Two days of amazing music, comedy, and entertainment at Waterloo Park beckon and we’re going to alleviate your case of the Mondays by offering up two weekend passes to the fourth edition of the festival. Enter your information in the form below for a chance to win.

Few bands do a better job tossing catchy melodies and choruses into such a mucky stew of noise and deliberately crappy recording techniques than Columbus, Ohio's Times New Viking. The trio, critically-lauded yet still dodging most of the mainstream love they probably deserve, is riding high on perhaps their crispest and most complete LP yet, Born Again Revisited, a batch of concoctions that sticks in the mind even though about 80% of its words are unintelligible. In preparation for their performance (which, if their other concerts are any indication, will be a nonstop onslaught of energy) at Fun Fun Fun Fest this Saturday, we shot some questions across the internet at Times New Viking, and guitarist Jared Phillips shot back some answers, including this little nugget: "fuck art." Enjoy.

Fun Fun Fun Fest is just a couple of weeks away and we sure are licking our chops in anticipation of what promises to be the biggest installment of the emerging annual festival. The organizers have been keeping busy, doling out tickets weekly via their Tuesday Trivia on Twitter contest, and last Saturday, over 40 teams participated in a Scavenger Hunt to win a whole host of prizes. Check out all the pictures -- you won’t regret it!

Still haven’t bagged yourself a ticket to the fourth edition of Fun Fun Fun Fest? Transmission Entertainment presents the perfect opportunity to convince a handful of friends to pool together their hard earned dough for a tasty little discount -- this weekend, if you purchase three weekend passes via the Fun Fest website, the fourth one is free. Simple enough. Oh, and there’s that Scavenger Hunt starting at 7 p.m. on Saturday at Red 7 where you can win tickets, PIP upgrades, and a whole lot more. Check out our “This Week in Fun Fun Fun Fest” post for recent festival related updates and news.

If you’ve got a penchant for undeniably catchy garage-rock, look no further than The King Khan & BBQ Show, performing on Sunday, November 8th at the 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest. Mark Sultan and King Khan first teamed up in the ‘90s, gaining notoriety with their band The Spaceshits’ belligerent shows. At the start of this century, Sultan was turning heads as the one man team that is the BBQ and Khan was busy finding success with his soul outfit The Shrines. But it was only a matter of time before the two friends reunited. The aptly named The King Khan & BBQ Show dropped its self-titled debut album in 2005 and followed it up with the What’s For Dinner? LP in 2006. They’ve appeased the masses with a handful of 7" records since; a new full-length called Invisible Girl is expected next month.

We’ve been checking the official Fun Fest website everyday for updates but having not seen any new announcements for a while, we gathered our technical experts last night. After a few hours of brainstorming, our team conjured up a moment of brilliance and hacked into the Fun Fest mainframe. We are pleased to announce that Wu-Tang Clan founding member GZA, legendary Japanese noise-brokers Melt-Banana, eclectic Californian outfit WHY?, and comedian Todd Barry have all been added to this year Fun Fest line-up.

The 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest is just a few months away and as always, we’ll be bringing you plenty of previews in the upcoming months, and a good amount of reviews as well once the dust settles. The fourth edition of this annual gathering of punk, hardcore, electro, hip-hop, indie-rock, and comedy will take place on November 7th and 8th at Waterloo Park and Transmission Entertainment has just revealed a few more names on this year’s line-up.

The original home of Free Week, Emo's isn't going to let this wonderful concept disappear from within its fabled walls. The venue, now sans Lounge but always a cornerstone of the blooming Red River music scene, has assembled quite the line-up to kick off its 2009 Free Week.

If you’re not familiar with Gabe Hascall’s contributions to Austin’s music history, then you best head to The Mohawk on Sunday evening when he performs a combination of new solo material as well as classics from his storied past. Hascall was a core member of The Impossibles. The band’s early ska output was a mainstay of the college and live music scene in town in the 90’s. After dealing with some internal issues, the band bounced back with 2000’s Return, boasting a new powerpop sound and a plethora of anthemic sing-alongs like “Enter/Return,” “(Never) Say Goodbye,” “Connecticut,” “This Is Fuckin Tragic,” “Oh Angelina,” and “Hey, You Kids!” The 4 Song Brick Bomb EP followed in 2001.

With December 25th fast approaching, two of Austin’s most unique bands pile on the Christmas cheer at The Mohawk on December 19th with the Golden Arm Trio & Invincible Czars Holiday Show. We caught up with Golden Arm Trio’s ringleader Graham Reynolds shortly before Fun Fest 2008 -- read our interview here. During Fun Fest itself, we coaxed in Laurie Gallardo from KUT 90.5 FM to have a brief chat with Reynolds -- watch the interview clip after the jump.

Every year, come December, we face a barrage of office holiday parties and family get-togethers, and then there’s this. Local photographer Aasim Syed has turned an evening at Red 7 into a veritable festival with this Saturday’s appropriately named “Aasim Holiday Party.” The outside stage will feature sets by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, the legendary (to us) Glorium (performing Close Your Eyes to mark the ten year anniversary of the album’s release), and Those Peabodys, while the spacious inside area will be entertained by Ume, The Black, and Diagonals. DJ sets by Fuckin’ A and Ramesh Srivastava (Voxtrot) to keep everyone warm and busy during the set changes are also a part of this stellar line-up.

If you missed ...Trail of Dead at Fun Fun Fun Fest, you can get your fix over at RCRD LBL today, where they're sharing an exclusive download of the new album's first single, "Bells of Creation."

The new Riverboat Gamblers album, Underneath the Owl, doesn't come out until March 2009, but SPIN is offering a free download of the single, "A Choppy, Yet Sincere Apology."

All photos contributed by staff photographers Eric Uhlir, Nash Cook, Briana Purser, Phive, and Patrick Dentler.

Pop music has its Brian Wilson, soul has Sly Stone, and rap has Kool Keith – the eccentric recluse whose odd behavior and flights of unpredictability hint at genius.

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We were lucky enough to pin Ms. Ray down for most of the weekend in the backstage media area at Waterloo Park, and here's what she spent her afternoons looking at.

For the third year, Transmission Entertainment's Fun Fun Fun Fest turned Waterloo Park into a veritable underground music melting pot. Successfully spanning hip-hop to comedy to hardcore in one weekend isn't an easy feat, and we can't remember the last time we saw so many punks, hipsters and club rats quite so elated.

We kicked off Fun Fun Fun Fest weekend with our annual Local Music Is Sexy party at the Mohawk. Thank you so much to Brothers & Sisters, Foot Patrol, the Lovely Sparrows, Leatherbag and the Eastern Sea for providing the local lineup, and to Dengue Fever for ending the night with a bang.

We're more dedicated than ever when it comes to spreading the word about our local music community: the bands that keep it running year-round, and the fans who still believe in leaving the house to take part in their scene. We're proud of this community, and we can't think of a better time to celebrate it than on the eve of Fun Fun Fun Festival.

This year's FunFunFun Fest punk stage is bound to be heaven for those weaned on classic 1980s underground punk rock, as the lineup features a veritable smorgasbord of heavies from that period.

San Francisco-based eccentrics Deerhoof have spent their entire career on Kill Rock Stars. The sometimes avant, sometimes classically inspired but always interesting group released Offend Maggie in October to rave reviews. They're one of the acts we're most excited to see this weekend, mostly because we just heard about their distribution of "Fresh Born" to an audience in NYC in the form of sheet music -- an urging for fans to submit their own versions. Until we find out if they offer Austin the same privilege, we'll settle for a discussion with Ed Rodriguez, the band's (new-ish) guitarist.

So many punk bands have gotten embarrassing over time. The Dead Milkmen are not such a band. Their posture was always more smirk than snarl, and their records have aged gracefully, still fun to shout along to, and imminently listenable without being overly slick. The band officially broke up over a decade ago, playing just one gig since -- a memorial show for the band's former bassist Dave Blood who committed suicide in 2004.

Brooklyn-based Parts and Labor do the kind of clangy tracks that get categorized as experimental, but it's experimental in a way that places it at intersection of rock and noise, listenable even when the blasts of sound are nearly overwhelming. B.J. Warshaw, the band's vocalist, bassist, and electronics expert forked over a few minutes of his time to talk to us about the band's new record, the festival circuit, and what exactly "experimental" means anyway.

Fun Fun Fun Fest is fortunate this year, as with the last, to have some pretty important names in punk rock on the bill. Bad Brains, The Bouncing Souls and All are just a small part of a long list of groups who have put their stamp on punk over the last 20 or so years. Kevin Seconds, singer of the legendary punk band 7 Seconds, is another one of those important punk figures, and albums like 1985’s Walk Together Rock Together earned 7 Seconds a spot in the hearts of many rebellious, disenchanted youths.

The 2008 Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks off tomorrow at Waterloo Park and we hope you’ve been enjoying our artist profiles and interviews. The revelry actually starts tonight! First up, our esteemed music editor Paige Maguire leads a fantastic team of panelists for After The Jump: Following Bloggers Into Mainstream Media, presented by Austin CVB and Transmission Entertainment at Club de Ville on Friday at 7 p.m. Immediately following that, The Mohawk is the place to be for our very own Local Music Is Sexy bash. This year, Brothers and Sisters, The Lovely Sparrows, Leatherbag, and The Eastern Sea do our city proud on the outside stage before Foot Patrol (also from Austin) and a special guest move the party inside at midnight. Club de Ville hosts the soul samplings of the Waxploitation DJs after the aforementioned panel. On Saturday, finish up your day of unending live music with White Denim for a special Exposion release gig at The Mohawk.

Seattle-based Minus the Bear have developed a solid following among indie rock fans. The band is notable for their often sophisticated use of non-standard time signatures. Alex Rose, who joined the band after working as sound engineer on their critically acclaimed album Menos el Oso, talked to us about the way the band has evolved over the past few years, and what's up next for the band.